Seym (river)
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The Seym or Seim (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a river that flows westward in Russia and Ukraine. It is Template:Convert long (250 km within Ukraine) and its basin area about Template:Convert. It is the largest tributary of the Desna.[1][2][3][4]
Places on the river include Kursk, Kurchatov,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Rylsk, Glushkovo,[5] Putyvl, Baturyn, and the junction with the Desna, which continues west and south past Chernihiv to Kyiv.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In September 2024, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials accused Russia of polluting the river by dumping sewage from a sugar factory in Tyotkino, Kursk Oblast, resulting in environmental damage estimated at about Hr 186 million ($4.5 million) in Chernihiv Oblast that included a decrease in oxygen levels and fish kills downstream.[6]
The river also serves cooling water for the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia.
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